Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 272 pages)
,
illustrations, maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300139233
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0300154925
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1282352210
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9780300139235
,
9780300154924
,
9781282352216
Series Statement:
Yale agrarian studies series
Content:
This text examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in 19th-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history and science studies, this text shows how and why agrarian Americans accepted, resisted and shaped scientific ways of knowing the land
Content:
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""PART I: THE PLACE OF SCIENCE""; ""1 Distinguishing the Georgic""; ""2 ''The Science of Agriculture and Book Farming'': Homespun Virtue, Dandy Vice, and the Credibility of ''Chimical Men'' in Rural America""; ""3 Knowing Nature, Dabbling with Davy""; ""PART II: THE SCIENCE OF PLACE""; ""4 The Agricultural Society, the Planter, and the Slave: Producing Scientific Views of Virginia County Lands""; ""5 The Geological Survey, the Professor, and His Assistants: Producing Scientific Views of the State of Virginia
Content:
""6 Agriculture, Ethics, and the Future of Georgic Science""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300139235
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0300139233
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cohen, Benjamin R Notes from the ground New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2009
Language:
English
URL:
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